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  • Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

    Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

    by Chip Colwell ...
    A leading anthropologist "explores the fraught project of repatriating Native American sacred objects in this moving and thoughtful work" ( Publishers Weekly).Who own the objects that connect us to history? And who has the right to decide, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? As senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So Much Stuff

    How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything

    by Chip Colwell ...
    How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control.Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into sharp-edged objects for slicing meat, making the first knives. This discovery resulted in a good meal and eventually changed the fate of our species and our planet.With So Much Stuff, archaeologist Chip Colwell ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Massacre at Camp Grant

    Forgetting and Remembering Apache History

    by Chip Colwell ...
    Winner of a National Council on Public History Book AwardOn April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O’odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near Tucson, Arizona. Thirty or more Apache children were stolen and either kept in Tucson homes or sold into slavery in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Inheriting the Past

    The Making of Arthur C. Parker and Indigenous Archaeology

    by Chip Colwell ...
    In recent years, archaeologists and Native American communities have struggled to find common ground even though more than a century ago a man of Seneca descent raised on New York’s Cattaraugus Reservation, Arthur C. Parker, joined the ranks of professional archaeology. Until now, Parker’s life and legacy as the first Native American archaeologist have been neither closely studied nor widely ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

    Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture

    by Chip Colwell ...
    Narrated by Chip Colwell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 26 min

    Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits.Today, hundreds of tribes use ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Living Histories

    Native Americans and Southwestern Archaeology

    Series series Issues in Southwest Archaeology
    This book is about the tangled relationship between Native peoples and archaeologists in the American Southwest. Even as this relationship has become increasingly significant for both "real world" archaeological practice and studies in the history of anthropology, no other single book has synthetically examined how Native Americans have shaped archaeological practice in the Southwest and how ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Ethics in Action

    Case Studies in Archaeological Dilemmas

    Based on the Society for American Archaeology’s Annual Ethics Bowl, this SAA Press book is centered on a series of hypothetical case studies that challenge the reader to think through the complexities of archaeological ethics. The volume will benefit undergraduate and graduate students who can either use these cases as a classroom activity or as preparation for the Ethics Bowl, as well as those ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement

    Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement is an indispensable resource for archaeologists and the communities in which they work. The authors are intensely committed to developing effective models for participating in the civic renewal movement - through active engagement in community life, in development offor interpretive and educational programming, and for in participation in debates and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Objects of Survivance

    A Material History of the American Indian School Experience

    Between 1893 and 1903, Jesse H. Bratley worked in Indian schools across five reservations in the American West. As a teacher Bratley was charged with forcibly assimilating Native Americans through education. Although tasked with eradicating their culture, Bratley became entranced by it—collecting artifacts and taking glass plate photographs to document the Native America he encountered. Today, the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • History Is in the Land

    Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley

    Arizona’s San Pedro Valley is a natural corridor through which generations of native peoples have traveled for more than 12,000 years, and today many tribes consider it to be part of their ancestral homeland. This book explores the multiple cultural meanings, historical interpretations, and cosmological values of this extraordinary region by combining archaeological and historical sources with the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Crossroads of Culture

    Anthropology Collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

    The hectic front of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science hides an unseen back of the museum that is also bustling. Less than 1 percent of the museum's collections are on display at any given time, and the Department of Anthropology alone cares for more than 50,000 objects from every corner of the globe not normally available to the public. This lavishly illustrated book presents and celebrates ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Collaboration in Archaeological Practice

    Engaging Descendant Communities

    Series series Archaeology in Society
    In Collaboration in Archaeological Practice, prominent archaeologists reflect on their experiences collaborating with descendant communities (peoples whose ancestors are the subject of archaeological research). They offer philosophical and practical advice on how to improve the practice of archaeology by actively involving native peoples and other interested groups in research. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD